Editor's picks
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Addiction in the orchestra: classical music's drink and drugs problem
At 15 she was playing the Royal Albert Hall. At 21 she was breakfasting on vodka. As a new documentary explores addiction in classical music, cellist Rachael Lander tells her story
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Tchaikovsky's Sixth ('Pathetique')
Symphony guide: Forget its mis-translated moniker. Tchaikovsky's final symphony might be about death, but it's a confident and supremely energetic work -
Video: the Kronos Quartet at Edinburgh
Watch the Kronos Quartet introduce their latest work which blends an emotive score by Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov with archive footage from the first world war reclaimed by film-maker Bill Morrison. -
Patricia Kopatchinskaja performs Bartók's Violin Concerto No 2
Video: In this exclusive video for the Guardian, Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays and discusses Bartók's 2nd violin concerto. -
'The music knows things that I don't'
Interview: Last year Peter Maxwell Davies was given six weeks to live. He went on to complete his 10th Symphony. He talks to Tom Service